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Originally Posted by ckissick

I'm a geotechnical engineer with ample experience evaluating slope stability. I wouldn't go past that fissure. It could go at any time, even without anyone adding their own weight to it.

Also, I noticed on the wiki list of deaths that an inordinate amount happened in India. Even allowing for population, I think.

Lots in India, lots involving trains, and lots involving cliffs or bridges.

Yeah, I'm not a geotechnical engineer, but I would be very unlikely to go past the big crack. I'd be much more likely to find a spot that wasn't a big crack.

I'm thinking that since those things eventually fall all by themselves over time, that there could be months or even years with lots of stability, but then there could be a period where the thing is balanced on a knife edge and 100# is enough to tip it over.